They work with the tools they have at the time they have them. But try as they may, the best that they can come up with is a cross between Cher and a constipated robot.
And to even get that into something audible entailed installing 3 different apps to achieve one line of speech.
I gave a 20 minute talk during LibrePlanet 2015 via text to speech but it was a closed solution and I had to purchase a $90.00 subscription just to do my talk at Cambridge.
The technology is out there, and from what I see within my circles, so is the talent. Tens of thousands of people like myself will depend on this software to make it through day to day living.
I want to find the people to make that happen. And yes, I will do it via text to speech. Oh, come on...It'll be fun.
The speaker is also the founder of the Reglue Foundation through which he helps